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Emergency Coordination/ Operations Facilities

1. The Clark County Emergency Operations Center and the City of Vancouver Emergency Coordination Center are generally co-located in the Clark Regional Emergency Operations Center (CREOC). The EOC is located in the CRESA Building, 710 W. 13th Street in Vancouver.

2. CRESA has agreements with two other agencies to provide alternate facilities in the event that the primary facility is unusable. .

3. The CRESA Director is responsible for ensuring the readiness of the Clark Regional EOC. CRESA fulfills this mission through a close partnership with Clark County, the City of Vancouver, and partnering agencies.

4. Detailed procedures for the CREOC can be found in the CREOC Plan and

Procedures.

5. In regard to CREOC readiness, CRESA will - a. Develop and maintain a staffing plan

b. Establish and implement training standards.

c. Develop and implement general, interagency procedures for CREOC operation.

d. Provide general training in CREOC operations.

e. Ensure the readiness of facility, equipment, and supplies.

6. The City of Vancouver, Clark County, and other partnering agencies providing staff to the CREOC are responsible for –

a. Providing personnel to the EOC in support of the staffing plan.

b. Ensuring that assigned personnel have the resources needed to fulfill their specific function in the CREOC, such as communications equipment, agency plans, procedures, contact lists, and resources lists, etc.

c. Developing and implementing procedures for the agency’s specific function in the CREOC.

d. Providing training for staff required for the agency’s specific function in the CREOC.

7. The activation of the CREOC may be requested by any incident commander or agency administrator. This may be done by contacting the CRESA Duty Officer.

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8. Following the decision to activate, CRESA is responsible for notifying staff to report to the CREOC.

9. The Clark Regional Emergency Operations Center is organized in accordance with the principles and terminology prescribed in the incident command system.

10. The leader of the CREOC is referred to as the “EOC Manager”. The EOC Manager is responsible for establishing EOC objectives and for coordinating with participating agencies to fulfill these objectives.

11. Agency representatives working in the CREOC will report to the EOC Manager or his/her delegates and will work within the coordination section of the CREOC organizational structure.

12. Typically, agency representatives will be in the CREOC to provide connectivity and reach-back to their agencies for additional resources. 13. CREOC activation will be carried out at one of three activation levels,

depending on the scale of the emergency

a. Routine Emergency – Incident warrants a routine response that may involve utilization of mutual aid resources. The situation is still manageable by a single jurisdiction. Routine activation will only involve the CRESA Duty Officer and other emergency management staff.

b. Enhanced Operations – Situation is currently or has the potential to go beyond the capability of a single jurisdiction. The incident may involve a large number of organizations and may require significant resource mobilization. The EOC would be activated and would be staffed by the first response group. The first response group includes key public safety organizations, the American Red Cross, public works agencies, and CRESA.

c. Full Operations – Major disaster. Full mobilization of countywide resources is warranted. This level will most likely require assistance from the region and the State. EOC will be at full staffing and may gear up for long-term operations.

14. The Emergency Operations Center Manager may establish other support facilities such as a call center or a recovery center.

15. The CREOC serves as the central point of contact for the Washington State EOC in Camp Murray, Washington. All requests for resources outside of Clark County will be forwarded by the CREOC to the State EOC, unless other arrangements are in place.

16. The CREOC is responsible notification of policy makers (CREOC Policy Group) and coordinates policy decisions and the activation of emergency powers.

Clark County Regional CEMP Basic Plan: Information Collection and Dissemination

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V. Communications

Clark County has coordinated a multi-leveled framework of options to communicate between response agencies, dispatch and the EOC during

emergencies and disasters. This system allows responders, dispatch and other responding agencies to use these platforms as needed based on the need of the emergency.

CRESA has trained agency liaisons within the EOC to help coordinate information and resources needed from agencies and the EOC.

CRESA has access to back up communication systems including using amateur radio, satellite phones along with conventional methods of landline phone, email, VHF radio transmission.

Clark County has also engaged with the use of other technical tools to help communicate resources needed, and situational awareness with the use of internet based incident management tools along with social media. For more information on CRESA’s use of Social Media can be found in CRESA written directive 01.007.

CRESA has the ability to launch the Emergency Alert System (EAS), automated alerting (ECNS in Clark County), and Commercial Mobile Alerting System (CMAS), alerts for Clark County. CRESA is also capable of launching these types of alerts for Region IV of Southwest Washington, and integrated into the Portland Metro area if the need arises. .

Clark County Regional CEMP Basic Plan: Administration, Finance, and Logistics

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